Matthew Prior (Мэтью Прайор)

Bibo and Charon

When Bibo thought fit from the world to retreat,
As full of Champagne as an egg's full of meat,
He waked in the boat, and to Charon he said,
He would be row'd back, for he was not yet dead.
Trim the boat and sit quiet, stern Charon replied,
You may have forgot - you were drunk when you died. 

1. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
2. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
3. A Song (In vain you tell your parting lover)
4. Cupid and Ganymede
5. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death

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